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What you need to know about the new COVID-19 variants – Al Jazeera English
Experts say new variants are not necessarily deadlier forms of the coronavirus disease but are more infectious.
At about the same time the first vaccines against the coronavirus disease were being approved and acquired in December 2020, health officials in the United Kingdom announced a new strain of the virus.
The variant was initially reported to be up to 70 percent more infectious. A few days later, another variant of the coronavirus was announced in South Africa already the country with the highest rate of COVID-19 cases on the continent at more than 15,000 a day.
And in January another variant was detected…
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